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William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (/ ˈ m oʊ l t ən /), was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph. He was also known as a self-help author and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. [1]
Sarah Elizabeth Marston (née Holloway; February 20, 1893 – March 27, 1993) [1] was an American attorney and psychologist.She is credited, with her husband William Moulton Marston, with the development of the systolic blood pressure measurement used to detect deception; the predecessor to the polygraph.
Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Backster Jr. (February 27, 1924 – June 24, 2013) was an interrogation specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph instrument in the 1960s which led to his theory of primary perception where he claimed that plants feel pain and have extrasensory perception (ESP), which was widely reported in the media.
Leonarde Keeler (October 30, 1903 – September 20, 1949) was an American inventor best known for co-inventing the polygraph.He was named after the polymath Leonardo da Vinci, and preferred to be called Nard.
American inventor Leonarde Keeler testing his improved polygraph on Arthur Koehler, a former witness for the prosecution at the 1935 trial of Richard Hauptmann. A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test, [1] [2] [3] is a pseudoscientific [4] [5] [6] device or procedure that measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration ...
However, this conclusion refuted one of the basic assumptions of traditional psychology, which is that emotional life is based on reasoning. Throughout his interest in Freudian psychology, Benussi made theoretical discoveries of the field of psychoanalysis adaptable to experimental tests. Benussi invented sonno base, a hypnotic state meaning ...
Joseph Wolpe's dedication to psychology is clear in his involvement in the psychology community, a month before his death he was attending conferences and giving lectures at Pepperdine University even though he was retired. Moreover, his theories have lasted well beyond his death.
Guilford graduated from the University of Nebraska before studying under Edward Titchener at Cornell.Guilford was elected a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 1937, [2] and in 1938 he became the third president of the Psychometric Society, following in the footsteps of its founder Louis Leon Thurstone and of Edward Thorndike, who held the position in 1937.